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Communication Skills for Managers Course

  • Duration:2 Days
  • Cost:£950 + VAT
  • Ref:CSM

Listen and talk to your team as a manager should.

Cost £950.00 Duration 2 days Code CSM

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Who is it for

First line managers and middle managers who want to improve how they get their message across to their team members and other internal stakeholders.

What is it about

This is a course that has been developed specifically with the needs to today's manager in mind.  It looks at how to communicate effectively from a position of authority - to motivate your team and achieve performance improvements through them while retaining their respect.  it also looks at how you can communicate under pressure, and how you can talk to difficult people in your team.

Participation on this course followed by successful completion of written assessment leads to level 3 award in first line management. It also forms part of our CMI management qualifications.


Course Overview

Communication styles
- Acknowledge and develop your own communication style
- Adapt your style to the differing needs of individuals in your team
- The unique responsibilities of a manager: choosing the right approach for the right situation

Practical communication strategies
- Portray natural confidence in your messages
- Overcome barriers to effective communication
- Learn to listen actively to your team members
- Productive questioning techniques
- Communicate as a manager and leader should and earn respect
- Represent the interests of your department to internal and external stakeholders
- Develop receptive and open body language
- Apply the art and science of influence

What to do when things aren’t going well
- Dealing with and diffusing conflict situations
- Communicating with those who don’t want to listen
- Using communication to drive performance improvements in individuals
- Decisive communication within the disciplinary process

Consolidation
- Roleplay and discussion with other delegates to reinforce your learning
- Decide on at least three areas for personal change when you return to work


What will I get out of it?

- An understanding of the necessities of good managerial communication techniques
- A greater awareness of your own preferred style of communication
- A range of responses to communicate successfully with difficult people and in times of conflict
- Enhanced personal and team productivity through better working relationships

Accredited by

This course is accredited for CPD

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